A reporter for Health Care News emailed me asking about Amazon’s health care initiative so I decided to take another look. Earlier this year I wrote about Amazon entering the health care space. One Medical is its membership-based medical service. One Medical features virtual clinical visits along with 125+ physical locations in 25 cities. It claims to break the mold for…
Category: Cost of Healthcare
Primary Care Physicians’ Changing Relationship with Patients
Does your doctor recognize you when you come in? Or does he or she merely scan your file quickly before stepping into the exam room? My dog’s veterinarian knows her history mostly from memory, but I’m not convinced physicians in large cities can have that close a relationship with their patients. It’s a little too much to expect that level of relationship in my opinion. It isn’t necessarily bad if our doctors only remember us contextually. That is, at the office they remember our history when prompted with a file but would not recognize us at the mall without a prompt.
Thursday Links
- Of the 7.5 million people who bought their first firearm during the pandemic, half were women, and nearly half were people of color.
- More than $200 billion (17%) of small business Covid relief lost to fraud.
- Is pickle ball too noisy?
- College tuition explained: it’s price discrimination.
- GOP Senators: “We were shocked to see the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announce via a tweet that the Administration has ‘taken steps for temporary importation of certain foreign-approved versions of cisplatin products’ – meaning from China – without otherwise informing American oncologists.”
Tuesday Links
- Gorman and Goodman: Texas was right not to expand Medicaid.
- Schaeffer Center: Medicare Advantage enrolls lower-spending people, leading to large overpayments.
- Why DC is so dangerous: “the overwhelming preponderance of lethal violence is carried out with illegal weapons” and “most gun arrests don’t lead to charges.”
- Prenatal tests: Very accurate for common genetic disorders like Down syndrome. But for rare diseases, the positive results were wrong 80 percent to 93 percent of the time
- Janitor cut the power to a lab freezer, destroying decades’ worth of research materials valued at nearly $1 million.